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Work history.1890 - 1930 CE
  
     
  1890 Represents a watershed year for humanity. For it is about this time that the professional classes had begun to make the re-emergence known, that science and rational thinking had re-emerged as a dominant “public” influence of debate over Vatican dogma and that the first signs of workers right appeared.
  
  Workers rights and the community
  
  Modern multi-national corporations, the descendents of the ancient industrialists and slave traders who happily worked people into early death consider workers rights and effective unions their mortal enemies.
  
  For up until the mass rallies and wars that saw the emergence of organized labor and unions, the wealthy owners of industry were virtually free to dictate what token wages they would pay their worker slaves while keeping the vast majority of profits.
  
  Thanks to the age of economics, a system designed to break the rights of workers, many nations have reverted back to industrial systems only slightly better than the dark days before 1890.
  
  But in 1890, the rise of the unions heralded a momentous period. For owners of industry and large capital have never cared for the benefit of workers, or the community, nor have ever wanted to see a better life for workers and the community with the exception of a handful of extraordinary individuals.
  
  The rise in living standards
  
  Between 1890 and 1914 and the deliberate onset of World War I, saw the greatest rise in the standard of living of average workers the world had seen until that point. This new found improvement in living conditions fuelled an optimism and “can do” attitude that saw genuine innovations in all areas of science, engineering and society not seen for over 1800 years.
  
  This period also saw the birth of real innovation in industry such as mass production and the early concepts of automation.
  
  While the unleashing of World War I was probably supposed to take the world back to the autocracy and monarchies of the early 1800's, it ended up having the opposite effect of accelerating even further change.  
 
Industry Profile 1930
Industry %
Agriculture/Hunting 42.0%
Manufacturing/Wholesale 16.0%
Mining/Construction 11.0%
Retail Trade 12.0%
Transport/Storage 6.0%
Services 10.0%
Govt/Military 3.0%
100%
 
  In most nations, excluding Germany, work progressed at a pace and the quality of living and city design improved with new transport systems, the introduction of electric power as standard and the first domestic household appliances.  
  But once again, the stops were put on the growing standard of living of workers by the Federal Reserve Bank of America in 1929, sparking a global depression.  
 
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